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E. LEONARD.

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E. LEONARD.

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Patented Feb. 19, 1884 Hum N. PETERS. Fhntvlhhognphzr. Wnhinglon. D. c.

NITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELMER LEONARD, OF BRIDGEPOR'I, ASSIGNOR TO L. HARVEY LCOMER AND ANDREWF. LOOMER, BOTH OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,969, dated February19, 1884.

Application filed September 28, 1883. (ModeL) To all whom it mayconcern.

Be it known that I, ELMER LEONARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCorsets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains'to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain novel and useful improvements incorsets, and has for its object to' provide a hippiece which shall beconstructed without any horizontal stitching or boning, thereby greatlyfacilitating its manufacture and cheapening the cost, while at the sametime great flexibility is obtained; and with these ends in view myinvention consists in providing a central perforated ply and cording thesame transversely, then stitching in the proper stay for the bones, andboning vertically through shirrpockets formed by stitching through theseveral plies, all as will be hereinafter fully and in detail explained,and then specifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled. in the art to which my invention appertainsmay understand more fully its construction and adaptation, I willproceed to describe the same in detail, referring by letters to theaccompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in whichFigure 1 is a view illustrating a female figure with my improved corsetfitted thereto; Fig. 2, a view of the central perforated ply with thecording therein partially completed; Fig. 3, a view showing the bonesinserted within the vertically-stitched shirr-pockets; Fig. 4, avertical section takenat the line 00 00 of Fig. 2, and Fig. a transversesection taken at the line y 3 of Fig. 3.

Similar letters denote like parts in the several figures of thedrawings.

Prior to my invention hip-pieces for corsets have been boned withintransverselystitched shirrpockets; but while flexibility .to aconsiderable degree has been thereby obtained the corset frequentlycockles and loses Also, the

its shape, which causes sagging.

bones have been inserted in shirr-pockets so as to cross each otherdiagonally, and in this case they eventually crowd each other so as totear out the stitches, and thereby become useless.

In constructing my improvement, I perforate the under-arm and shoulderpieces A 13 before or after they are stitched together, as may be foundmost convenient. These perforations may be stamped out with a die ormade simply with an awl or punching-tool.

C is the cord which is run through the perforations in the centralply,'D.

E is a stay-pocket stitched onto the said ply, as shown at Fig. 2, andwithin which the upper ends of the bones are inserted.

F are the shirr-pockets, made by vertical stitching through the outsideply, H, central ply, D, and inside ply, I, and G the bones insertedtherein. the perforations in the ply D, as hereinbefore set forth, thestay-pocket E is stitched on said ply, and the outside and inside plies,H I, secured thereto by means of vertical rows of stitches, formingpockets F. The bones are then inserted within said pockets up into thestay-pocket E. The upper portions of the under-arm and shoulder piecesare stiffened, and kept in shape by bones extending diagonally acrossthe said pieces, the pecu- 8o liarity of this boning being that eachpiece does not have a separate series of bones extending diagonallytoward each other.

I have found by actual experiment that by boning this particular part inthe manner specified and shown the corset will stand more strain andwear at this point without breaking down.

By the use of my improvement, I am enabled to do away with stitching intwo directions, while at the same time all the strain on the bones isexerted upon the latter in the direction of their length, and thecording transversely serves to retain the shape of the corset.

Having thus described my invention,what I The cord is run through 70claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Intestiinony whereof Iaflix my signature in [0 Patent, ispresence of two Witnesses.

'In a corset, the central ply of the hip-section, perforated and cordedtransversely, as ELMER LEONARD.

described, and secured Within the outside and inside plies by stitchesextending vertically, Witnesses:

whereby Vertical pockets are formed between F. W. SMITH, J12, the rowsof stitches for the insertion of the S. S. WILLIAMSON. bones,substantially as shown and set forth.

